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We’re building the world’s most advanced self-driving vehicles to safely connect people to the places, things, and experiences they care about. We believe self-driving vehicles will help save lives, reshape cities, give back time in transit, and restore freedom of movement for many.

In our cars, you’re free to be yourself. It’s the same here at Cruise. We’re creating a culture that values the experiences and contributions of all of the unique individuals who collectively make up Cruise, so that every employee can do their best work. 

Cruise is committed to building a diverse, equitable, and inclusive environment, both in our workplace and in our products. If you are looking to play a part in making a positive impact in the world by advancing the revolutionary work of self-driving cars, come join us. Even if you might not meet every requirement, we strongly encourage you to apply. You might just be the right candidate for us.

As a Senior Applied Scientist, Autonomy Evaluation, you'll drive impact focused projects that address the everyday challenges that our AV's face on urban roads- ones that do not have standard solutions available.

What you'll be doing:

 

As a tech lead, you will demonstrate your leadership by:

• Defining success criteria from ambiguous problem statements.
• Driving evaluation strategies and roadmaps, monitoring and analysis incorporating safety, roadcraft and compliance metrics for core autonomous capabilities.
• Ensuring comprehensive validation of AV performance with high fidelity signals.
• Streamlining testing and road monitoring process in collaboration with AV Engineers to build a fast feedback loop to AV model development.
• Mentoring fellow Data Scientists and fostering a positive, collaborative work environment.
• Role-modeling a positive, humble and growth-oriented attitude.

 

As an individual contributor, you will be responsible for:

• Building high quality data miners and metrics that serves testing, road monitoring, and model training
• Analyzing AV performance data to extract insights and opportunities for optimization. 
• Developing new methodologies, e.g., machine learning based approaches, to scalably improve the quality of metrics
• Test and deploy and your methods in our simulation environment
• Collaborating with AV Software Engineers, Systems Engineers, Test Engineers along with Product Management and other stakeholders to build shareable tools, methods, and dashboards
• Converting insights into actionable recommendations for AV software development and launch readiness decisions, and succinctly communicate these findings to partners and leadership

 

What you must have:

• A Masters or PhD degree or equivalent experience in Robotics or other relevant industry experience
• 3+ years post-academic experience in evaluating large models, data science, machine learning, or a closely-related field
• Strong software engineering foundation and proficiency in production-environment coding and best practices
• Proficiency in SQL and Python
• Experience designing, training, and critically analyzing machine learning models for big data
• Solid statistical foundations, familiarity with hypothesis testing, statistical power, and common biases in data
• Experience designing, developing and maintaining automated reporting tools for management and other partners
• Creative, inventive, and passionate about seeking new solutions to problems and opportunities
• A track record of leading multi-functional initiatives and collaborating with engineering and product teams
• 3+ years of experience mentoring other data scientists

 

Bonus Points!

• Experience in the autonomous driving industry 
• Experience in C++

 

The salary range for this position is $161,200 - $237,000. Compensation will vary depending on location, job-related knowledge, skills, and experience. You may also be offered a bonus, long-term incentives, and benefits. These ranges are subject to change.

Why Cruise?

Our benefits are here to support the whole you:

• Competitive salary and benefits 
• Medical / dental / vision, Life and AD&D
• Subsidized mental health benefits
• Paid time off and holidays
• Paid parental, medical, family care, and military leave of absence
• 401(k) Cruise matching program 
• Fertility benefits
• Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account
• Flexible Spending Account & Health Saving Account
• Perks Wallet program for be